PRISON SENTENCE FOR ASSAULTING FEMALE BUS DRIVER IN GALWAY

Date Published: 02-Apr-2009

A city man has been given a total of 8 months in prison for drunkenly assaulting a female bus driver.39 year old, John Paul Barrett of 2 St. Nicholas Park, Ballybrit, pleaded guilty at Galway District Court to assaulting the female driver of a Bus Eireann bus at Parkmore Industrial Estate, on May 24 last. He also pleaded guilty to being drunk and abusive on the same occasion.